| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: enough: her only covering, as usual, was the ample yellow mantle.
There she sat upon a stone, tearing her black dishevelled hair, and
every now and then throwing up her head, and bursting into a long
mournful cry, "for all the world," as Yeo said, "like a dumb four-
footed hound, and not a Christian soul."
On her knees lay the head of a man of middle age, in the long
soutane of a Romish priest. One look at the attitude of his limbs
told them that he was dead.
The two paused in awe; and Raleigh's spirit, susceptible of all
poetical images, felt keenly that strange scene,--the bleak and
bitter sky, the shapeless bog, the stunted trees, the savage girl
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: This marked the beginning of a course of cattle-buying on the
part of small Wilbur's family which ended only in 1928, when the
Dunwich horror came and went; yet at no time did the ramshackle
Wateley barn seem overcrowded with livestock. There came a period
when people were curious enough to steal up and count the herd
that grazed precariously on the steep hillside above the old farm-house,
and they could never find more than ten or twelve anaemic, bloodless-looking
specimens. Evidently some blight or distemper, perhaps sprung
from the unwholesome pasturage or the diseased fungi and timbers
of the filthy barn, caused a heavy mortality amongst the Whateley
animals. Odd wounds or sores, having something of the aspect of
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "but looks can't always be trusted."
"MY looks can," said Scraps. "I LOOK patchwork, and I AM patchwork,
and no one but a blind owl could ever doubt that I'm the Patchwork
Girl." Saying which, she turned a somersault off the Woozy and,
alighting on her feet, began wildly dancing about.
"Are owls ever blind?" asked Trot.
"Always, in the daytime," said Button-Bright. "But Scraps can see
with her button eyes both day and night. Isn't it queer?"
"It's queer that buttons can see at all," answered Trot. "But good
gracious! What's become of the city?"
"I was going to ask that myself," said Dorothy. "It's
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible: heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return
thou, and all thy servants.
SA2 19:15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
SA2 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of
Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
SA2 19:17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba
the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
SA2 19:18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera
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